Five Nepali workers have died when a bus carrying migrant workers on their way to work plunged into a drain near the MASKargo area in Sepang, Malaysia Sunday night.
Eleven persons including the Malaysian bus driver were killed when the bus plunged four meters into the 20-meter deep drain at around 11.10pm local time, malaymail.com reported quoting KLIA district police chief ACP Zulkifli Adamshah. The victims included five Nepalis, three Indonesians and two Bangladeshis.
Spokesperson at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bharat Paudel said the ministry has learnt that 13-14 Nepalis were travelling on the ill-fated bus. "We don't have the details about the fatalities. Officials at the Nepali Embassy in Kuala Lumpur have gone to Sepang and details will arrive once they reach there," Dahal added.
Adamshah said six of the victims, including the bus driver, died on the spot, and two each at Serdang Hospital and Putrajaya Hospital, respectively.
Adamshah said preliminary investigation found that the bus was carrying 43 migrant workers working for MASKargo from their hostel in Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, to their work place when the crash occurred.
The workers were supposed to start work for the midnight shift. The bus, however, was not heading toward the MASKargo building but toward the engineering building or the airport hangar. Zulkifli said the police would investigate why the bus was not heading toward the site of work.
